Director, Product Development Engineering

The Team You Will Join

When you join Met Life’s Global Technology team, you’ll be part of a forward-thinking group dedicated to shaping the future of digital solutions for customers worldwide. You’ll develop, maintain and support technology applications and delivery, leveraging AI, automation, and contemporary ways of working to enhance experiences and drive business outcomes. Your work will simplify complex processes, improve tech resiliency, and ensure high-performing, seamless solutions that power life’s most important moments.

In this dynamic environment, you’ll collaborate with talented peers across teams and functions, expanding your skills in impactful ways. Ready to push boundaries and set new industry standards? Join us and help drive the future of technology forward.

Met Life is one of the leading providers of Group Benefits worldwide and is the premier provider of U.S. Benefits. We have an exciting opportunity to join and lead product-aligned technology delivery for Retirement & Income Solutions (RIS) Annuity Products. This role sits at the intersection of product strategy, annuitant experience, modern engineering, and AI-driven delivery.

You will lead high-performing, globally distributed engineering teams responsible for building, modernizing, and scaling annuity platforms that support Income Annuities, Pension Risk Transfer, and Structured Settlements, with a relentless focus on annuitant outcomes, product quality, resiliency, and speed-to-market. As a Director, this is both a strategic and hands‑on leadership role—partnering closely with Product, Business, and Architecture leaders while actively shaping engineering practices, AI adoption, and modernization across the portfolio.

• Serve as a technology and engineering leader aligned to RIS annuity product strategy, ensuring platforms are designed with the annuitant experience, reliability, and long‑term scalability in mind.
• Champion the adoption and scaling of high‑impact AI tools and emerging technologies across engineering and product teams, thoughtfully applying them throughout the product delivery lifecycle and reinforcing AI‑first ways of working through leadership behavior, clear expectations, and personal example.
• Lead and inspire 50+ engineers across onshore and offshore teams, including employees and strategic partners.
• Hire, develop, coach, and retain top engineering talent; actively invest in upskilling teams in cloud, AI, and modern development practices.
• Drive end‑to‑end ownership of the product engineering lifecycle—from strategy and design through build, launch, and production support.
• Partner closely with Product Management and Business leaders to translate annuity product vision into clear technical roadmaps and prioritized delivery plans.
• Act as the key technology advisor, balancing business outcomes, technical health, regulatory needs, and annuitant impact while leading technical delivery across a modern stack including cloud‑native architectures, APIs, microservices, and event‑driven integrations.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices across code quality, security, testing automation, performance, resiliency, and Dev Sec Ops .
• Identify delivery, technology, and operational risks; drive mitigations and audits to closure.
• Ensure solutions meet security, regulatory, and enterprise standards expected within platforms.
• Integrate site reliability engineering (SRE) practices into product delivery to ensure production stability and strong annuitant outcomes.
• Own financial accountability for the product engineering portfolio, including budgeting and vendor spend.
• Utilize Speed & Delivery metrics, KPIs, and outcome‑based measures to continuously improve delivery effectiveness.
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Manage vendor partnerships and ensure delivery quality, transparency, and value realization.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering and product‑focused technology delivery.
• 5+ years leading large, distributed engineering…